Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $20
The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $20 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.
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By price
Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
- 1Myth of Empires$0.03/1hr224h73.97%67.60%
- 2SCUM$0.03/1hr526h74.83%74.01%
- 3Subsistence$0.08/1hr104h77.22%72.12%
- 4Terraria$0.09/1hr106h97.31%97.37%
- 5Don't Starve Together$0.10/1hr150h94.77%94.89%
- 6Space Engineers$0.14/1hr145h88.56%88.81%
- 7Green Hell$0.15/1hr19h84.66%84.61%
- 8Breathedge$0.16/1hr15h82.10%80.93%
- 9Stoneshard$0.17/1hr101h76.97%74.67%
- 10ARK: Survival Evolved$0.18/1hr85h83.40%83.34%
- 11Core Keeper$0.18/1hr65h91.93%92.94%
- 12Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.19/1hr103h79.91%78.37%
- 13The Survivalists$0.20/1hr25h80.20%76.18%
- 14Smalland: Survive the Wilds$0.20/1hr35h83.35%81.61%
- 15Tribes of Midgard$0.21/1hr23h79.02%76.38%
- 16Ostranauts$0.22/1hr91h82.51%77.13%
- 17Outpath$0.23/1hr17h86.78%92.65%
- 18The Long Dark$0.25/1hr80h88.61%88.89%
- 19Starbound$0.25/1hr59h89.78%89.92%
- 20The Planet Crafter$0.27/1hr54h94.74%96.03%
- 21Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.28/1hr43h85.62%86.59%
- 22Necesse$0.29/1hr52h90.77%92.68%
- 23Mist Survival$0.31/1hr26h79.18%75.65%
- 24SurrounDead$0.32/1hr37h89.19%91.01%
- 25Sunkenland$0.32/1hr62h81.57%80.44%
- 26Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr31h85.06%85.47%
- 27Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition$0.34/1hr17h79.39%77.02%
- 28The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria$0.35/1hr43h82.47%81.03%
- 29Dinkum$0.36/1hr56h90.09%91.78%
- 30Rising World$0.40/1hr37h84.82%85.75%
- 31Craftopia$0.40/1hr37h78.98%75.91%
- 32The Front$0.41/1hr25h75.58%66.63%
- 33Dying Light$0.41/1hr42h95.09%95.23%
- 34Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.41/1hr29h87.35%94.21%
- 35The Infected$0.43/1hr17h84.73%84.09%
- 36Arctico$0.43/1hr2h81.41%70.22%
- 37Raft$0.43/1hr46h92.85%92.97%
- 38Don't Starve$0.45/1hr22h95.62%96.54%
- 39Forever Skies$0.46/1hr26h81.37%78.17%
- 40IfSunSets$0.49/1hr29h82.36%74.72%
- 41Nova Lands$0.51/1hr18h86.66%89.17%
- 42DUCKSIDE$0.58/1hr26h81.40%72.16%
- 43Stranded Deep$0.59/1hr14h76.05%74.15%
- 44Castle Story$0.59/1hr17h75.16%65.19%
- 45The Forest$0.61/1hr33h95.42%95.53%
- 46Forager$0.66/1hr30h88.68%89.47%
- 47Longvinter$0.70/1hr29h77.31%67.11%
- 48I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.73/1hr27h84.30%84.38%
- 49Voidtrain$0.76/1hr20h78.83%73.38%
- 50Crashlands$0.77/1hr19h86.39%89.52%
- 51Volcanoids$0.80/1hr25h83.46%82.61%
- 52Survive the Nights$0.97/1hr21h76.72%65.59%
- 53Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.49/1hr13h76.79%71.07%
- 54DeadPoly$1.59/1hr6h81.72%77.63%
- 55How to Survive$1.97/1hr8h83.60%82.67%
How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.